Capital and Labor

Mar062011
Today's Maurin

“Capital”, says Karl Marx,
“is accumulated labor,
not for the benefit of the laborers,
but for the benefit of the accumulators.”

And Capitalists succeed
in accumulating labor
by treating labor
not as a gift,
but as a commodity,
buying it as any other commodity
at the lowest possible price.

And organized labor
plays into the hands
of the capitalists
or accumulators of labor
by treating their own labor
not as a gift,
but as a commodity,
selling it as any other commodity
at the highest possible price.